As Ye Ling was sent flying, the surrounding environment instantly brightened.
Ye Ling stopped himself and looked at the illuminated surroundings, finding himself in a desolate land with a dark red sky, as if stained by blood.
In the four corners of the sky, thick iron chains connected to the ground.
Where the four chains converged, Ye Ling saw a giant, over four meters tall, bound by chains at its limbs. A long sword condensed from runes, wielded by Ye Ling, was plunged into the giant's chest.
The giant was breathing heavily, its skin appearing newly formed. Beside the giant lay the colossal axe that Ye Ling had damaged.
"Was that the one that ambushed me?"
Ye Ling looked at the chained giant. Before he could comprehend why the surroundings had brightened, the giant pulled the rune sword from its chest, crushed it with its massive palm, and stared intently at Ye Ling with its enormous eyes.
As Ye Ling met the giant's gaze, before the giant could move, Yin Guo exclaimed, "Master! Danger!"
Hearing Yin Guo's warning, Ye Ling's pupils contracted slightly, and he instinctively moved from his spot.
*Bang!*
The next moment, the giant swung its colossal axe down, splitting the ground in two!
Ye Ling saw the giant suddenly appear behind him and then looked back to his original position, discovering that the giant was still bound by chains.
However, the giant and the chains soon vanished, leaving only the giant that had ambushed him moments before in the world.
"It seems that even though the surroundings have brightened, I still cannot trust my eyes. In this strange place, all perceptions are false!"
At this moment, Ye Ling finally understood.
Not only the visions of the future, but everything he saw, heard, and even touched was illusory!
Now, besides Yin Guo's perception of danger, Ye Ling could not trust anything else.
However, although Ye Ling had fallen into a peculiar place, the damage he had inflicted on the giant was very real.
The giant's attack frequency was no longer as rapid, and Ye Ling could clearly feel that the giant's strength had significantly weakened.
"Although I still don't understand the opponent's methods, this giant's strength is not superior to mine. With Yin Guo's help, even if I can't see through the opponent's tricks, I should be able to kill him with sheer power!"
Having confirmed this course of action, Ye Ling no longer looked at the distant giant. He even closed his eyes, shielding his perception of the future.
Since everything he saw and heard here was false, it was better to see nothing, hear nothing, block all interference, and rely on Yin Guo's perception of danger to fight.
As Ye Ling shielded all his senses and plunged his consciousness into absolute darkness, he slowly heard his own heartbeat, the flow of blood in his veins, and the circulation of spiritual energy in his meridians.
Gradually, Ye Ling felt Yin Guo's presence, and his consciousness began to resonate with Yin Guo!
Yin Guo had never experienced such a wondrous sensation. It also immediately held its breath, attempting to establish a peculiar connection with Ye Ling.
Ye Ling's consciousness merged with Yin Guo's.
The next moment, Ye Ling perceived an extremely strong sense of crisis approaching from directly in front of him!
"It's coming!"
Sensing the arrival of danger, Ye Ling did not open his eyes. He simply condensed a long sword with runes and held it before him!
*Clang!!!*
In this desolate land, the giant was still bound by chains in the distance, yet Ye Ling's rune sword blocked a heavy blow from a non-existent colossal axe!
Because Ye Ling had foreseen the danger this time and even discerned the direction of the attack, he easily blocked the giant's strike. He then raised his sword, parried the colossal axe from the giant's hand, and simultaneously thrust his sword forward!
Ye Ling's sword met empty air, but a wound appeared on the chest of the giant bound by chains nearby, and his colossal axe sustained a new chip!
"Roar—!"
The giant, pierced through the chest by the rune sword, roared in pain again, causing the entire ground to tremble.
The next moment, the roaring giant vanished from its spot, and in front of Ye Ling appeared a giant pierced by Ye Ling's rune sword.
Ye Ling's eyes were still closed, and he had shielded all his external perceptions. He was unaware of the situation outside, but when he felt his rune sword strike something, he did not hesitate. He immediately activated the Bai Di Yan hidden within his rune sword!
*Hiss!*
The Bai Di Yan surged from the body of the rune sword, igniting the giant's internal organs and burning the giant's body from the inside out.
The giant let out an even more agonizing scream. It thrashed on the ground again, but this time, the Bai Di Yan was ignited from within. Even if it shed its outer skin, it could not stop the Bai Di Yan from burning its body!
In desperation, the giant could only abandon its body and have its soul depart before its soul was ignited by the Bai Di Yan!
The giant's soul ascended into the heavens and the earth. The four chains that had bound the giant's limbs transformed into soul power chains, restraining the giant's soul.
The giant was unfazed by this. It cast a sinister glance at Ye Ling, who still had his eyes closed, dared not linger, and vanished from its spot.
The sense of crisis in Ye Ling's heart gradually weakened and finally disappeared.
Sensing the dissipation of danger, Ye Ling withdrew from the state of resonance with Yin Guo's consciousness. He reopened his eyes and saw the giant's colossal body lying before him, with the Bai Di Yan quietly burning…
"All done?"
Ye Ling watched the Bai Di Yan incinerate the giant's body, but he remained cautious, keeping Yin Guo on alert, while he himself approached the giant.
Ye Ling reached the giant's side. Not intending to let the Bai Di Yan completely reduce the giant's body to ashes, he withdrew the Bai Di Yan and crouched down to examine it.
"There is no trace of a soul here. That fellow must have escaped by soul departure… It seems the crisis is not over."
Ye Ling roughly scanned the giant's body with his soul power. Discovering that the soul had already vanished, he then unfolded his Ink Domain, preparing to decompose the giant into text and examine its attributes.
However, just as Ye Ling began to decompose the giant into text using his Ink Domain, the sound of a bell echoed around him again!
Yin Guo trembled, "M-Master… that feeling… it's back!"